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  • Nine Things I Learned Building a Scrabble App for My Friends

    calendar Mar 29, 2026 · 8 min read · software ai llms vibe-coding side-projects  ·
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    I grew up playing Scrabble -- my grandma was cuthroat. I've played occasionally through the years, and more recently I've been playing Scrabble Go, the official, licensed Scrabble app, with friends. It's fine, but it's full of ads (unless you pay them), it has annoying side games (gems? why am I earning gems?), and I …


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  • AI-Assisted Coding, Side Projects, and Donationware

    calendar Jan 9, 2026 · 3 min read · ai coding side projects donationware  ·
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    The rise of AI-assisted coding tools has made it dramatically easier and faster to build small side projects than ever before. What used to take weeks of evenings and weekends can now be done in a few focused sessions, with an AI pair programmer handling much of the boilerplate, debugging, and implementation details. …


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Featured Posts

  • IZE - Revisiting a hierarchical search technology from the PC era
  • How Search and AI Product Teams are Different
  • Post Query Refinement Suggestions in Search UX, and an Algolia Demo App
  • Use LLMs for Translation and Fallible Reasoning
  • Vibe-Coding the Missing Algolia Comparison Dashboard
  • AI-Assisted Coding, Side Projects, and Donationware
  • A Collaborative Template for A/B Tests
  • Are LLMs a simple solution? And if so, for what problems?

Recent Posts

  • Nine Things I Learned Building a Scrabble App for My Friends
  • IZE meets AI -- semantic search, smarter labels, and agentic orientation
  • GeneralIZE -- How else could IZE's hierarchies be generated?
  • Could We Build IZE Again?
  • What Came After IZE? Three Domains, Three Answers
  • How IZE Really Worked - Algorithm, Patent, Limits, and Esther Dyson
  • IZE - Revisiting a hierarchical search technology from the PC era
  • 11 Algolia A/B Testing Gotchas, Tips, and Lessons!!

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